About

Maggie Mulvihill is a Boston-based investigative reporter and journalism teacher who has trained hundreds of journalists and other professionals on how to use data-driven and investigative reporting storytelling techniques and computational journalism methods to produce deeply reported government accountability stories. An Associate Professor of the Practice in Computational Journalism at Boston University since 2009, Mulvihill is also a longtime First Amendment advocate, an attorney and a news entrepreneur. At BU, Mulvihill created the department’s first data journalism course in 2015 and also the university’s Data+Narrative Storytelling Workshops.

Mulvihill has developed, supervised and edited over 70 stories with her students to produce-award winning public interest journalism. Often collaborating with other local and national journalists, Mulvihill’s students have earned or shared in more than a dozen regional or national journalism awards for stories ranging from sentences for juvenile killers, the growing criminalization of the homeless, uncovering serious deficiencies in workplace safety during COVID-19 and problems with state lottery systems. 

She serves on the Academic Task Force for Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Leadership Council of The Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press, where she was a longtime Steering Committee member, and is also on the board of The New England First Amendment Coalition. 

She was a 2004–2005 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and in 2014 was named to the Federal Freedom of Information Act Advisory Committee.  This year, she launched BU’s first student Investigative Reporters and Editors student chapter and teaches the Law and Ethics of Journalism and reporting courses.  Mulvihill is the co-founder of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and a former Faculty Fellow at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.

While at BU, Mulvihill has served in numerous capacities in additional to instructing students, including as a member of faculty search committees and the Academic Misconduct, Curriculum and Appointment, Promotion and Tenure committees. She mentors scores of young journalists, serves as a judge for national journalism contests and regularly trains and mentors reporters interested in investigative, data and government accountability journalism.